I let the American people down.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Solitude is independence.

I never fall in love.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

What is true belongs to me!

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.